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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong, and Jetty

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Speaker 2: Barack Obama admits to marriage woes and shocking comment it's

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Speaker 2: not that shocking, mildly interesting. I'll tease it as saying

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Speaker 3: Plus the long and storied history of folks on the

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Speaker 3: left doing precisely what they're saying Donald Trump shouldn't do

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Speaker 3: my last word for the rest of my life on

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Speaker 3: the topic. Uncharacteristically, I've brought not one, but two sports

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Speaker 3: stories to you today. Number One, the Cal Raleigh, affectionately

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Speaker 3: known as Big Dumper, the home run smashing catcher for

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Speaker 3: the Seattle Mariners, joined the Baseball sixty homer Club. Second

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Speaker 3: Big Darrier, what I kept.

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Speaker 4: Hearing from everybody on this team was we got more

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Speaker 4: just even more focused tonight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, you know, I think most people heard

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Speaker 1: what I said last night. You know, might as well

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Speaker 1: win the whole thing.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome, all right, Laren, come to you, naughty naughty cow,

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Speaker 2: naughty cow. So two knights in a row, he says,

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Speaker 2: in front of the big, giant hometown crowd.

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Speaker 1: Might as we'll win the whole thing.

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Speaker 2: And I guess it's from the movie Major League, which

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Speaker 2: I didn't remember, the Charlie Sheen Classic. That's where it

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Speaker 3: So second and I will be rooting for them, I think.

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Speaker 3: Second sport story. Do you know what the Ryder Cup is?

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Speaker 3: It's a big every other year team golf competition between

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Speaker 1: It's golf that the golf.

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Speaker 3: As I mentioned, Yes, indeed, and if you're a golf

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Speaker 3: ban you get super into it. Before I get to

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Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, it's oh, it's being held in New

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Speaker 3: York at the legendary Bethpage Black Golf Course, and the

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Speaker 3: Governor of New York State, Kathy Hochel, went there to

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Speaker 3: receive the warm accolades of her voters.

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Speaker 5: Keep it going for New York, Your friend and mine

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Speaker 5: in attendance, Governor Kathy Hochel. Governor, thank you so much

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Speaker 6: I would like to say a few thank yous to

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Speaker 6: people who made this journey possible. Off to Governor Hulkel,

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Speaker 6: to the teams of New York, to the teams of

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Speaker 1: Here's what I do.

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Speaker 2: After the second time I get booed at the mention

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Speaker 1: In the script? Anymore? You give me that pen? How

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you've noticed, but every time I

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Speaker 3: So three times, oh, I know, just overwhelming lusty We've

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Speaker 3: sat on this show many times. Don't Trump came in

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Speaker 1: And mean to the Euros. But here's the twist I

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Speaker 3: Because she sucks as a governor and the human being.

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Speaker 1: Why didn't know? Is that a mostly Republican crowd the

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Speaker 3: Or I could see it being more republican, say an

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Speaker 3: So it used to be the part of the appeal

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Speaker 2: Could, because that's the best place to get coaching and.

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Speaker 1: All that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, and then to make the PGA Tours

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Speaker 1: And also it's all become kind of funny.

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Speaker 2: So it's kind of like when we see are NBA

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Speaker 2: MVP playing for some other country in the Olympics, Like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: But it's it's still fun, and what the heck, I'll

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Speaker 3: they've got very few actual duties that they need to execute,

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Speaker 3: putting hardcore pressure on ABC in various media companies because

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Speaker 1: I hate that. I've always hated it, I always will

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Speaker 3: We don't need the government weighing in on free speech,

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Speaker 1: And there's no such thing as hate speech. That's a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and Pam BONDI using that term was an utter

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Speaker 3: betrayal of those of us who cherish liberty. So shut up, Pam,

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Speaker 2: They make Brendan Carr look like an amateur. Well, they

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Speaker 3: For instance, you got eleven to seven Democrats Senate Democrats

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Speaker 3: for speech policing. Don't forget how Democrats who controlled the

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Speaker 3: but you know, maybe another day. Some Democratic senators wanted

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Speaker 1: It's evil.

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Speaker 2: Even if you're going to be in charge the whole time,

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Speaker 2: Competition like we had with FedEx, which made the post

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Speaker 2: it's indoctrinating them into the craziest views of America. It's

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Speaker 2: it's funny. I ran into a teacher last night. Well,

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Speaker 2: I was at the grocery store buying my hamburger for

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Speaker 2: my spaghetti sauce. Some a woman said, older woman said

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Speaker 2: listen every day. And she went on about various things.

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Speaker 2: But she used to be in the public education system

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Speaker 2: It's just it's depressing all the way around. Anyway, I

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Speaker 2: was just taking in a little John Stossel. We used

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Speaker 3: He probably gets ten thousand times as many views for

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Speaker 1: That's what would happen to public schoo rules right when

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Speaker 3: But he just kept grinding, He just kept solving problems

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why we Americans, we native born Americans love

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Speaker 2: Friend well, and most of your convenience stores, liquor stores,

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Speaker 1: Working hard again. Damn it, that keeps coming up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you own one of those stories. You ain't gonna

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Speaker 1: Be very, very bad for their country. I don't know

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Speaker 3: No, the restraints are off, but not we are going

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Speaker 2: It really was just we will not get in your way.

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Speaker 2: Good luck to all? What is that? Good luck to all?

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Speaker 2: Good luck to both countries, good luck to both countries.

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Speaker 1: Why are you wishing them luck? What the hell is that?

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Speaker 2: He really he really thought he and Putin were friends,

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Speaker 2: We're backing one country, we're not backing the other country, right,

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Speaker 3: He's differentiating Russia from Putin, I guess, or Russian leadership

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Speaker 2: Rather, if you were eighty, if you were eighty years old,

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Speaker 1: And I'd be wrong, and that's dangerous. Well, you can

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Speaker 3: There, doesn't matter, it's immaterial to me. I get your point.

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Speaker 3: Well right, and your instinct ought to be I need

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Speaker 1: Anyway, where this ends, nobody knows so well.

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Speaker 3: God, it could be the Russian paper tiger or paper

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Speaker 3: bear if you prefer, shrivels up and just looks terribly weak,

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because Russia keeps pushing with various NATO countries and

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Speaker 2: That was a bunch of words around the idea that

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Speaker 2: NATO countries are going to start shooting down any of

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Speaker 2: these Russian drones when they cross into their borders, maybe

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Speaker 2: even before.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see. Alexander Stube of Finland is an extremely

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Speaker 1: thoughtful guy.

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Speaker 2: Well see what this leads to, Like you said, it

447
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Speaker 2: could be Russian, it could be stalemate nine months from now.

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Speaker 2: It could be Russia decides, you know, this isn't worth

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Speaker 2: it the economy, the military, and kind of backs off.

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Speaker 2: Or it could be mushroom mushroom clouds. It certainly could be.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Putin would not be the first dictator to decide

452
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Speaker 3: if my megalomaniac dreams don't come true, then my people

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Speaker 3: don't deserve me and they don't deserve to live.

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Speaker 1: No, that was Hitler's belief at the end. Yeah, uh yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean he ordered the destruction of German towns, and

456
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Speaker 2: luckily it was not carried out by the people beneath him.

457
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Speaker 2: But he actually believed the German people should die. They

458
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Speaker 2: they didn't fight hard enough. So I don't think Putin

459
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Speaker 2: is that. I don't think so. But I could one

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Speaker 2: hundred percent see that him making the calculation, I'm going

461
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Speaker 2: to use a tactical nuke and it will back them off.

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Speaker 1: They'll back off.

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Speaker 3: Mm yeah, yeah, a terrible possibility. But I think you're

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Speaker 3: one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: Right, which I think we might, by the way, back off.

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Speaker 3: I really enjoyed the conversation between Brett Bear and President

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Speaker 3: Stube of of Finland Michael Do sixty five and sixty six,

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Speaker 3: back to back for us, then we can move on.

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Speaker 8: And the other thing we have to understand is that

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Speaker 8: Russia and Putin have failed in all of their strategic games,

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Speaker 8: and on the military front, the advance is really slow.

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Speaker 8: In the past one thousand days they have advanced one

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Speaker 8: percentage point of the territory of Ukraine. So this is

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Speaker 8: not exactly a march in too Kiev.

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Speaker 1: So what was supposed to be four.

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Speaker 8: Days is now showing it pretty much four years and

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Speaker 8: they've taken twenty percent of Ukrainian territory.

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Speaker 1: You're happy Finland joined NATO.

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Speaker 8: Oh, I'm very happy. I was always an advocate of

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Speaker 8: Finish native membership. I have to admit we're in a minority.

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Speaker 8: We have to understand that for us, the big game

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Speaker 8: changer in Finland and Sweden was Russia's war of aggression

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Speaker 8: in Ukraine, and the feeling was, you know, if they

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Speaker 8: can do it to Ukraine, could they do it to us.

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Speaker 8: We've always taken care of our military. As I said,

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Speaker 8: we are a security provider, not a security consumer. In NATO,

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Speaker 8: we take care of the northeastern flank of Europe together

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Speaker 8: with America.

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Speaker 3: I like that we're a security provider, not a security consumer.

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Speaker 3: And I'm sure he had a couple of two tree

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Speaker 3: countries in mind. Yeah, allergies friends. Yeah, and then you

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Speaker 3: want to know the most important thing, he said, I

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Speaker 3: don't think we had the have the audio. Bratt Bear,

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Speaker 3: who's an avid golfer, asked him a kind of a

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Speaker 3: lighthearted question about the fact that Stube and Trump have

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Speaker 3: bonded over playing golf together, because Stube actually came. I

497
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Speaker 3: think he went to school in the US and wanted

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Speaker 3: to become a professional golfer. And he's got game, he's

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Speaker 3: got serious, no long hitter stupe. Yeah, but he said, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I've really enjoyed playing with the president. He's a fine,

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Speaker 3: fine player. He's a better player than me, which I

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Speaker 3: don't believe for a second. But Trump probably like sent

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Speaker 3: fifty billion dollars worth of armament and gold plated ceiling

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Speaker 3: fixtures and wall or so oil whatever they need in Finland.

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Speaker 1: Whatever they need exactly.

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Speaker 3: That's some good flattery. And he said it with a

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Speaker 3: totally straight face and everything.

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Speaker 1: That's funny. Hey, Katie, before we take a break, I

509
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Speaker 1: got a joke for you.

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00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 2: Apparently this is a popular junk, a joke among your

511
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Speaker 2: eighth graders or whatever.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so Katie, Katie has gone clear through middle school.

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Speaker 1: Not too long ago. Why did the chicken cross the road?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Jack, Why to get to the idiot's house? Knock, knock,

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00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 1: who's there? The chicken? Very good?

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Speaker 3: Wait a minute, you have, in effect, implied Nay stated

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Speaker 3: that I am the aforementioned idiot.

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Speaker 1: I mean, got a lot of it was just multi layered,

519
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Speaker 1: most basic humans.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna hit my wife with it the moment.

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Speaker 1: I see her.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we will finish strong next. In general, I like

523
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Speaker 2: the free market to take care of things. If you're

524
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Speaker 2: a bad company doing bad things and tricking people or

525
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 2: bad service or whatever, then you know some other company

526
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 2: will come along and do a better job and take

527
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Speaker 2: your customers. That's what keeps people right where you cross

528
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Speaker 2: the line into illegal illegality is you know. I didn't

529
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Speaker 2: go to law school, but the Federal Trade Commission with

530
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Speaker 2: the biggest fine ever two point five billion dollar settlement

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Speaker 2: with Amazon, they were tricking customers into signing up for Prime.

532
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 2: I haven't heard a good description of how that worked,

533
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 2: but here's the part that I do understand. And making

534
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Speaker 2: it almost impossible to cancel O. Now that so many

535
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Speaker 2: companies do that, and it makes me so angry. And again,

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Speaker 2: I think the free market should fix this doesn't a lot,

537
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 2: but it should fix it like eight with AT and T.

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Speaker 2: Or maybe I shouldn't name a company. Let's pretend I

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Speaker 2: didn't say AT and T. A company where you might

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Speaker 2: have your iPhone and a bunch of other iPhones and

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Speaker 2: watches and stuff like.

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Speaker 1: That you get rid of one.

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Speaker 2: You can sign up for anything there at the store,

544
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Speaker 2: but you can't cancel it there at the store. You

545
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 2: got to call a specific number. You have to call them,

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Speaker 2: and they're only open certain hours and rings for a

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Speaker 2: long time, and then you're on hold for a long

548
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 2: time and you get busy and you think I'll call

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00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 2: back tomorrow. I haven't got time for this right now,

550
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 2: and you forget about it, and you keep that damn

551
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Speaker 2: twenty dollars a month thing for a watch you no

552
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Speaker 2: longer use, going for another however many months that.

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Speaker 1: It freaking drives me crazy.

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Speaker 3: Enter the fifty digit code on the original packaging of

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Speaker 3: your Apple WoT.

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Speaker 2: Right exactly, I mean that is that is what it

557
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 2: obviously is. Oh, I can sign up for it here.

558
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 2: You can sign me up easily, but you can't cancel it?

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00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 2: Why is that? You know why it is? You're hoping

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Speaker 2: I can't or won't.

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00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm gonna have a government agency that just

562
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 3: goes around opening accounts than trying to cancel them, and

563
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Speaker 3: if they can't, they bring the hammer down.

564
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Speaker 2: And we've all had experience if you ever tried to

565
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 2: quit a gym. I just paid like six extra months

566
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Speaker 2: on a gym that I swear to god I canceled

567
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 2: on time, but they.

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Speaker 1: Said I didn't. And well, how is that going to

569
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Speaker 1: prove them wrong? Michael?

570
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Speaker 3: Do we still have that canceled clip that we used

571
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Speaker 3: to play all the time during the height of canceled culture?

572
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 3: And I because when my government agency gets up and running,

573
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,479
Speaker 3: you know when we go to cancel an account, if

574
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 3: we go to cancel that account, you know what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: You know what, It'll be.

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Speaker 3: Canceled taking a long time. So I'm I'm wondering, given Haiming, giving.

577
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Speaker 2: How much I'd been screwed by various phone companies and

578
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 2: gyms and other people throughout my life, what did Amazon

579
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 2: do to cross the line of actually getting sued for

580
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 2: it making it almost impossible to cancel your prime subscription. Wow, God,

581
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 2: that makes me nuts because you know what you're doing.

582
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 2: I know what you're doing.

583
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: You Oh, can't handle it, Jeffrey pays.

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Speaker 2: And it's not just the stupid tax, it's the I

585
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 2: got better things to do tax. Then, you know, spend

586
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 2: an hour on trying to cancel this dumb little thing today,

587
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 2: right right, hate you so much. Speaking of tax, have

588
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 2: been meaning to squeeze this in. If you were of

589
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 2: a certain age, you're familiar with the fact that once

590
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 2: you hit fifty and then sixty you can do catch

591
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Speaker 2: up contributions to your four to oh one k, pile

592
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 2: extra money into that for your retirement. I don't exactly

593
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 2: understand the theory behind that one.

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Speaker 1: Well, to make your us depending on the government, Yeah, well.

595
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, but then why don't they Why don't they? Why

596
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 2: don't you let people contribute more than you're younger?

597
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 3: Because they want the tax dollars. And indeed, this is

598
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 3: a huge tax increase the current government, the Trump by

599
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 3: rs is eliminating that if you are a high earner,

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00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 3: which they set at one hundred and forty five k

601
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 3: in wages, which makes you a hell of a high

602
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Speaker 3: earner and Coonhauller, Kentucky. And it makes you able to

603
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Speaker 3: afford your twelve hundred square foot apartment barely in, for instance,

604
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Speaker 3: Manhattan or San Francisco Bay Area or wherever else.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 2: National income statistics for any sort of thing are just

607
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 2: they don't make sense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: Wow, I didn't realize it. When's that start? Insult your

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00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 2: local tax professional?

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Speaker 1: That sucks.

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Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, it's gonna it. Issued final rules this month

613
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 3: on the twenty twenty two law that means many workers

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Speaker 3: will pay taxes on their CA up money up front. Well,

615
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 3: it's their high earning years. It's just a different version

616
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 3: of wealth redistribution. Yeah, yet another version. And the money

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00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 3: will go into a roth Ira account, which perhaps you've

618
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 3: heard of, which can later be withdrawn tax free. So

619
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Speaker 3: it's post tax money that then you can use tax

620
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Speaker 3: free later, which in some cases you're better off with anyway, honestly.

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Speaker 3: But again, touch your local you know, tax counselor or accountant, attorney, whatever.

622
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 3: But my got our tax code is complicated, just horrendous.

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Speaker 1: And it constantly changes too.

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Speaker 9: Oh yeah, strong, Strong, you're ready.

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Speaker 1: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.

626
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Speaker 3: How about a final thoughts from everybody on the crew

627
00:33:58,680 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 3: to wrap things up for the day.

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Speaker 1: There is Michael Angelo, r. Technical director in the control

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Speaker 1: room pressing the buttons.

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Speaker 4: Michael final thought, Yeah, I was just thinking back to

631
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 4: when I was a kid. They used to have these

632
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 4: things where you would get a CD for like ten cents,

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00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 4: and then they would keep sending you stuff. The next

634
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 4: thing is, you know you were hooked on this program

635
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Speaker 4: and I couldn't cancel it.

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Speaker 2: Yep, that you have to be a certain age to

637
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 2: remember that. But thirteen albums for one penny and my

638
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:22,879
Speaker 2: mom talked me out of it because she had done

639
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 2: it when she was young in the fifties, and you know,

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Speaker 2: you think it was impossible to cancel.

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Speaker 1: Bastards Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman.

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Speaker 3: As a final talk, Katie, this is always fun going

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00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 3: to your subscriptions section on your phone and see how

644
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 3: many things you're subscribed to?

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00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 1: Did I do that? Sign up for the free thing

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00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,919
Speaker 1: and then forget Yeah, we've got to do that.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for the reminder. I got to have like a

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Speaker 3: count of days. It's been seventy eight days since Joe

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00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 3: vowed to go through subscriptions, still counting. Jack final thought.

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00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 3: My favorite return policy was the Snuggie.

651
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 2: Remember when the Snuggie was popular, free returns if not satisfied,

652
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 2: all your money back. It showed my brother got it.

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00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 2: It shows up at a cardboard box with no label, no paperwork,

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00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 2: no nothing. Who are you gonna send it back to?

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00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 8: How?

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00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: What?

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00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:13,399
Speaker 3: Right? It's bastards? Did I mention that already? My final thought?

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Speaker 3: You know how they say a smile is the universal language.

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Speaker 3: I had found a long stick and poked at it

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Speaker 3: matter your culture or religion, if you want to figure

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Speaker 1: You poke it with a stick. That's right, It's a universe.

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Speaker 2: They even did that on Friends with their fat neighbor

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Speaker 1: We poked them with a stick.

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Speaker 3: So many people who thanks, so little time. Good Armstrong

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Speaker 3: God bless America is.

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